the real lifeboat problem (copypasta from discord):

you are on a sinking ship. one lifeboat holds 4 people. if the lifeboat doesn't have exactly 4 people, it will sink because of weight imbalance, and everyone dies. here are your choices:

1. you

2. hungry cannibal (50% chance he eats everyone, but he survives)

3. the loudest crying baby that's super annoying

4. scientist that will cure a random extreme rare and dangerous disease that no one really ever gets. but you are the sole beneficiary of his $500m life insurance policy

5. hasn't showered in a year reddit moderator moderator (he moderates the reddit mods)

6. guy who brags about getting away with murder, but he will never do a major crime again

7. your best friend that will now always drive in front of you going 5 under the speed limit (but he is like super chill and cool)

who are you saving?

Carrie/Elfen Lied crossover

QOTD 10/22/2026

Despite the inclination among policymakers to treat food as an object for individual consumption, many social movements have recognized that food is a source of communal power.

Consider how the Black Panther Party put children’s breakfasts at the heart of their social activism. American Studies scholar Mary Portorti writes that “free breakfast” became a means of creating alliances among Black, white, liberal, and conservative communities, tying the Panthers’ “revolutionary struggle to bread-and-butter issues of daily survival” in a way that helped broaden the movement’s goals. Breakfast was at once a method and an objective of the party.

Similarly, the farmworker-led Coalition of Immokalee Workers used food to advocate for better working conditions and unionization of food laborers. As food studies scholars Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares show, “fair food” became a vehicle for producing solidarity across laborers and consumers, creating the strong campaigns necessary to change social and political structures to recognize farmworkers’ rights.

At my university, graduate students drew on this same logic during a 2024 strike for a living wage, using food to help organize their movement. In addition to potlucks and shared meals, students initiated a pop-up campus food pantry to sustain the striking workers through lost wages that included food alongside other basic goods. They saw food as a scaffolding for providing care, while also creating solidarity among students.

Several weeks after the months-long strike was settled - with students successfully securing a raise - the pantry was still in operation. Though the food on display was both free and publicly accessible, it was not depleted.

The persistence of the food pantry became symbolic of a lesson from the strike: As far as overall resources went, there was more than enough; it was resource distribution - and the university’s spending priorities - that needed to be rethought.

Emily Yates-Doerr, “Recipes for Change” (October 2026)

#quote #quotes #food #politics

QOTD 10/21/2026

For almost two decades I have studied the experiences of displaced and migrant women as they navigate barriers to food, water, and other life-sustaining resources. For the women themselves, kitchens often emerge as important sites of affirming one’s dignity, reclaiming power and autonomy, expressing creativity, and nourishing relations of care.

Furthermore, cooking meals for family and friends promotes health in a way that is often overlooked in clinical settings. Culinary care also cultivates identity, while what is cooked preserves and celebrates culture.

Yet women’s experiences and knowledge are often dismissed and overlooked. Recognizing women’s contributions to food production and domestic labor should be a priority when it comes to designing policies to address some of our most pressing global problems such as hunger, water scarcity, and climate change.

Megan A. Carney, “Migrant Women Feed the World” (October 2026)

#quote #quotes #food #immigration

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liberals giving me my daily dose of psychic damage

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for some reason Children of Men seems to attract a lot of really stupid interpretations

looked up Children of Men scenes only to see racist and xenophobic comments. media literacy is dead

my hips don't lie but my knees are full of shit

they're putting something in the water that makes you pee...

QOTD 10/17/2026

Workers are poisoned by pesticides. They work through heat that is now regularly lethal in and of itself, made yet more dangerous by wildfire smoke, and which is projected to only get worse. Diabetes is experienced at rates above the national average.

The severe health effects of workers in this system seem like collateral damage in an otherwise functioning system. Yet, health effects are actually expected in and inherent to that system.

A Rockefeller Foundation study carried out by McKinsey found that food systems externalize over two dollars of social cost for every dollar they generate in revenue. THis means that every dollar we spend on food requires an additional dollar to cover the diet-related disease treatment for someone … And any business that has to internalize these costs would go bankrupt.

If the industry had to pay for the lifetime costs of any of the health conditions that their labor practices provoke, it would be unable to operate. But the food industry’s superpower is precisely pushing these costs far from the bottom line.

Seth M. Holmes and Raj Patel, “‘Farm to Fork’ Misses a Key Ingredient of the Food System: Families” (October 2026)

#quote #quotes #food #health #labor